Marker-Based AR Authoring Tool for Non-Technical Content Creation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing augmented reality (AR) content development tools are complex and require technical expertise, making it difficult for non-technical consumers to create their own AR experiences.

Innovation Solution

A computing device equipped with a recognition engine and a content creation engine that allows users to create AR content by recognizing real-world markers and mapping them to digital AR content primitives, enabling the aggregation of these primitives into new AR content sets.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Ease of manufacture

If existing AR content development tools are used, then AR content can be created, but the tools are complex and require technical expertise

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveEase of AR content creationVSAvoidComplexity of development tools

Core Design Contradiction:

Ease of manufactureVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the AR content creation process into distinct components: marker detection, primitive selection, and content assembly. Each component is handled separately through automated recognition and predefined templates, reducing the complexity burden on users while maintaining comprehensive AR content creation capability

Inventive Principle:

Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary processing layer that automatically translates simple marker arrangements into complex AR content structures. This intermediary system handles the technical complexity of coordinate transformations, primitive mappings, and content generation, allowing non-technical users to create sophisticated AR experiences through simple marker placement

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Adaptability or versatility

If complex development environments are used to create rich AR experiences, then AR content functionality is enhanced, but the tools become beyond the ability of non-technical consumers

Engineering Contradiction:

ImproveAR experience richnessVSAvoidUser accessibility

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSEase of operation

Solution Approach 1:

The patent prepares and pre-configures AR content primitives and templates in advance, organizing them into categorized libraries with predefined properties and behaviors. This preliminary preparation allows non-technical users to simply select from pre-designed options rather than creating complex AR content from scratch, maintaining versatility while improving ease of operation

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent enables users to create rich AR experiences by copying and reusing predefined content primitives and templates. Instead of requiring users to build complex AR content independently, the system provides reusable building blocks that can be instantiated and configured through simple operations, making advanced AR creation accessible to non-technical users

Inventive Principle:

Principle #26Copying

Data Source

PatentUS20250046035A1Marker-based augmented reality authoring tools

Publication Date: 2025.02.06 NANT HOLDINGS IP LLC

AI summary

An augmented reality-based content authoring tool is presented. A content author arranges machine-recognizable markers in a physical environment. A computing device operating as the authoring tool recognizes the markers and their arrangement based on a captured digital representation of the physical environment. Once recognized, augmented reality primitives corresponding to the markers can be bound together via their primitive interfaces to give rise to a content set. The individual primitives and content set are instantiated based on the nature of the marker's arrangement.